Liberal arts fields like History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less

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Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

To recap in light of breaking news out of the UK:

The French found a way to prosecute former presidents.

The South Koreans did the same.

Our British cousins now literally are prosecuting members of the Royal Family.

But U.S. presidents remain above the law.

Meme with the Death Star destroying Alderaan, and Grand Moff Tarkin asking Princess Leia why she's crying when the Dow is over 50,000 while Darth Vader looks on.

With Bondi's unhinged rant about how we shouldn't be talking about the Epstein Files because the Dow is over 50k, I had to jump on the meme train. #Bondi #Dow #StarWars

This Jeopardy clip needs to be titled, "The Arrogance of Man." 😅

I may be but a simple history grad student and observer of how time works, but surely the makers of this could've predicted the coming of the 250th anniversary with enough lead time to use real actors in real locations and real special effects.

Rereading the Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1870) and this line about inexperienced federal officers is landing hard

I guess this shows that if you're in a position to help save the life of one of these ICE pieces of shit, you don't.

I live in a city along the MN border, and although I've been a liberal my whole life, seeing what ICE and CBP have done this past year has radicalized me to a point I never thought possible. My blood boils whenever I see these masked gestapo wandering the streets.

What is a catch in the NFL? That happens in the end zone, it's a TD. This judgement call on what is and isn't a catch has plagued the NFL for over a decade, and they still haven't found any consistency. They need to get it figured out ASAP.

What is considered a catch in the NFL? 🤷‍♂️ I've heard possession plus knee down through the ground is a catch. Cooks had possession, knee down, *landed on his back*, but then the Denver DB took the ball and it's an INT?!? If that happened in the end zone it's a TD. They need to figure this shit out.

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

This Norwegian is not alone. This is what the overwhelming majority of the world sees, including America's allies. 2026 Trump America is 1934 Nazi Germany — and there's no amount of gaslighting from Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk that is going to change this horrific reality. 👇

ICE agents anytime they see a car:

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood.

Scum.

A question that keeps popping up in my head is what would happen when one NATO Article V country attacks another Article V country? Is it like an ouroboros of collective defense?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Batman and Commissioner Gordon have a toast about surviving the year and hope to do it next New Years Eve.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

Any essential service that is required for safe and functional modern living should be mandated to be public only. Profit motive is incompatible with essential services, because "everyone has it" and "increase profit yearly" don't mix. Water, power, heat, safety - and I'm looking at you, Internet.

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

Showers may be a close second.

This whole shitshow of a decade, with Trump and his white nationalist sycophants contolling the political narrative, started when America elected Barack Obama president, and these racist assholes saw that people of color really could accomplish the same things as white men. Just sickening.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

This is an absolutely amazing idea! Did you develop the game yourself? Is it available?